SIO - Social Interactions & Organization
These 2 American demographics came to the Americas through the process of Triangular Trade and the colonial plantation economy.
Europeans
Africans
Identify the taxation system employed by the following ancient American empires:
1) Aztecs
2) Inca
1) Blood Tax (Tribute)
2) Mit'a System (Coerced labor)
This diasporic community spread throughout North and South America because of Atlantic Ocean Trade.
African Diaspora
This plant was discovered in the Americas and quickly became extremely popular in Europe, and therefore became a valuable cash crop for American colonists.
Tobacco
This process brought this disease which caused a plague called the "Great Dying" among native Americans.
Columbian Exchange
Smallpox
This social class of self-liberated former slaves rallied behind Toussaint L'Ouverture to successfully end French rule over this sugar colony.
Maroons
Haiti
This revolt of Native Americans threatened this European empire's control over what is now New Mexico.
Pueblo Revolt
Spain
This economic thinker and his book (and its primary enlightenment idea) were heavily influential on American economic policy at its founding.
Adam Smith - "Wealth of Nations"
Capitalism
This cash crop originated in SE Asia, and served as the economic backbone of many American colonies - including Brazil and Haiti.
Sugar
This "cash crop" from the Andes mountains was highly valuable during the industrial era as a fertilizer for agriculture.
Guano
The Seneca Falls Convention in the US was an effort to move American thinking in this enlightenment direction.
Feminism (Women's Suffrage)
This was a revolt led by a Native American "king" who rallied tribes together in a failed attempt to oppose British rule in the America.
Metacom's War ("King Philip's War")
This, Adam Smith's idea for capitalist economic policy v. this, 20th counterpart which advocated for governmental deficit spending (employed by FDR in the Great Depression).
Laissez-Faire
Keynesian Economics
Propagated by the Spanish and the Portuguese these were colonial versions of feudal manors for which local natives were expected to serve as a source of labor.
Haciendas
The collapse of this crop brought a wave of Irish migrants to the US.
Potato (Great Famine)
This Latin American social class rallied behind this South American liberator who freed multiple colonies from European rule in order to create a new unified nation of Gran Colombia.
Creoles
Simon Bolivar
The American Revolution served as the first of many of these types of revolutions where people form a new identity apart from their government/colonizer.
Nationalism
These competing economic worldviews became cultural symbols for the US and Russia during this 45 year period following the end of WWII.
Capitalism v. Communism
Cold War
This industrial revolution began in America, prompted by the steam engine and this process to make cheap steel.
Second Industrial Revolution
Bessemer Process
This technology fulfilled Manifest Destiny - connecting America from Atlantic to Pacific.
Locomotive (Trans-Continental Railroad)
These were formed to protect what Marx would call the proletariat in response to the excessive business practices of the Gilded Age bourgeoisie class.
Labor Unions
This document introduced the American variation on Hobbes' Natural Rights; "Inalienable Rights".
Declaration of Independence
This civil rights leader effectively employed T.V. as a way to display this tactic of resistance against oppression.
Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)
Civil Disobedience (Selma)
This Keynesian economic plan was proposed by this US president to combat the Great Depression.
New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The US used this new technology to end the use of this unpopular military tactic which had previously been employed in cities like Dresden (Germany) and Tokyo (Japan).
Atomic Bomb
Firebombing
This policy restricted Chinese migration to the US.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This North American nation saw a communist revolution at the turn of the 20th c. built around land reform.
Mexico
This Chilean leader violently overthrew the government in order to install an anti-Communist regime similar to this Spanish fascist dictator.
Augusto Pinochet
Francisco Franco
This American President from the 1980's is most closely associated with this his Free Market economic policy.
Ronald Reagan
Reaganomics
These technologies helped the US lead the way toward a spike in Agricultural production during the Green Revolution.
Pesticides
Fertilizers
This tenth point of this US president's 14 points was the desire to see nations resolve conflicts before they turned into wars.
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Reggae blends cultural influences from this diaspora from both the American South and the Caribbean.
African Diaspora
This agreement was South America's response to this North American economic agreement to allow trade to move freely between states.
Mercosur
NAFTA
The Green Revolution had many positive impacts, like an increase in global food supply. Name 2 negative effects.
Deforestation
Desertification
Global Warming
Pollution
This replaced the failed League of Nations following WWII and included this country which had rejected membership in the League of Nations.
United Nations
US
The modern US is a prime example of this type of economy which is built on information rather than manufacturing.
Knowledge Economy
This American policy (aka "The Truman Doctrine") was employed to quell a communist revolution on this peninsula which would ultimately result in a stalemate at the 38th parallel.
Containment
Korea
The US led the way in establishing this post-WWII alliance which was designed to check the imperial aggression of the USSR.
NATO
This is the Cold War notion that tensions should ease between the US and the USSR, typified by this early nuclear agreement between Nixon and Brezhnev.
Detente
SALT